Thursday, December 30, 2010

Goal

By using simple command line options, reliably extract any ISO in Ubuntu.

Hinderances

Apparently, many tools are out of date for extracting ISO images via CLI. The linux kernel is very up to date and is the most reliable for accessing ISO files. Unfortunately, there is no one command to use it.

My Aliases

I'm no scripting genius, so I just used a few aliases to make it pretty easy.

First, make the directories that you plan to use for your ISO mounts.cdmkdir iso1 iso2 iso3